Snarcoleptic_Hoosier:Well yeah, the flavors are cherry, orange, banana, and grape. Nothing wrong with taking in more fruits.

i got hooked on haribo peach slices while stationed in germany...you know the kind that are covered in big crystals of sugar...but they're SOOOOOO stinkin' good that i'd eat a whole bag in one sitting! i would jokingly justify this by saying it was my fruit intake for the day.

/jokingly//no 1 thing will make you fat, but the wrong things over and over will///fat

AverageAmericanGuy:It's not the candy that makes people fat. It's the shiat they're eating at mealtimes that's full of calories and the drinks they're gulping.

150 calories in a candy bar wouldn't be too bad if they weren't already eating 4000 calories every day.

Exactly. At 15 calories/teaspoon, sugar is not really the core of the problem for most adults. It's the 1000 calorie breakfasts, 1500 calorie lunches, 500calorie snacks, and 2000 calorie dinners.

The only time I see candy and sugary drinks playing a pivotal role in obesity is with kids, and frankly that starts with the parents giving them 400 calories worth of juice every day without thinking about it.

My 'perfect' cousins (you know, the one's your mom always wishes you were as good as) ate almost nothing but candy as kids. They were never fat (never looked terribly healthy either, kinda like pale vampire victims drained of blood). They were always running around doing stuff though.

AverageAmericanGuy:It's not the candy that makes people fat. It's the shiat they're eating at mealtimes that's full of calories and the drinks they're gulping.

150 calories in a candy bar wouldn't be too bad if they weren't already eating 4000 calories every day.

150 calories could be as much as 10% of a person's recommended caloric intake, depending on their weight and activity level.

One of the main contributing factors to my major weight gain a few years back was a little habit I developed of drinking a can of Coke every work shift. A can of regular Coke contains about 130 calories, so at 5 shifts a week I was taking in an extra 650 calories a week. There were other issues, as well (my physical activity was nil and in general my eating habits weren't great), but the soda was the real evil.

// Lost all that weight and then some, am at my thinnest since reaching adulthood and just ran my first marathon.

Candy doesn't make you fat. Being a lazy bum makes you fat. Burn more than what you eat = weight loss. Burn around the same amount as you eat=maintain weight. Burn less than what you eat = weight gain. <--- Billion dollar industry in 26 words.